Paris XV
1933
Architects: Marcel Hennequet & Robert Hennequet
Photo by RUAMPS ©, on Flickr
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Two Designs
Palace of the Soviets, Moscow:
open design contest, early 1930s
By A. Zhukov and D. Chechulin
by A. Dushkin and J. Doditsa
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Then They Took New York
Led by Gen. Italo Balbo, a formation of 25 Savoia Marchetti S.55X twin-hull flying boats flew from Orbetello (Toscana) to Chicago via Amsterdam, Londonderry, Reykjavik, Cartwright, Shediac, and Montreal. Greeted by a huge crowd of the Century of Progress exhibition visitors, the formation proceeded to New York, and returned to Italy via Shediac, Shoal Harbour, Ponta Delgada, and Lisbon.
They did it in one month and 12 days. One aircraft was lost in an accident during return flight.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Two Soldiers
Cecil Beaton
Two Chinese soldiers wearing gas masks at Pihu Military Training Centre in South Eastern China
1944
(IWM)
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Wind in Aberdeen
Photo by e_alnak @ Flickr
Rosemount Square (actually horse shoe shaped) was a social experiment which grew from an exploration of what a modern tenement could be like, a far cry from the then typical tenement building of the Scottish cities. The building was inspired by visits to social housing in Europe. Rosemount Square was largely designed by Leo Durnin under Alexander Buchanan Gardner at the City Architect’s Department. It is one of the last granite load bearing buildings in Aberdeen (as opposed to using a steel frame). It is Grade A listed.
Included in the building cost were three sculptured panels by Thomas Huxley-Jones representing Rain Wind, and Cold but only Wind (above) and Rain were completed, in an effort to save money.
Info:Alan Cooper via geograph
Monday, February 18, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Every 10 Minutes...
Opel Blitz assembly line, new Opel works, Brandenburg
1936
1936
50 trucks in one shift, a new truck every ten minutes
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Two Marines
Omega Marine wristwatch for Cartier
1934
Omega Grand Marine, 1932
(2007 in-house replica)
Monday, February 11, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
All-Steel Streamliner
International Delivery Van ad
(ft. the Magic Door!)
1940
Scanned and retouched by Paul Malon @ Flickr
Friday, February 8, 2013
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Two Gliders
Wolf Hirth waiting for a launch in the Laubenthal H2-PL Musterle glider
ca 1931
(Bundesarchiv)
(Bundesarchiv)
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The Empire Port
A pamphlet issued for the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow to extol
the values of the Docks at Southampton - the Southern Railway were
mighty proud of these important port installations and made the claim
that they were the Empire port. The image show the 'new' Western
Docks, the massive quays that substantially extended the port's
facilities and that opened in 1934.
via mickeyashworth @ Flickr
Monday, February 4, 2013
Hear, Hear!
Members of the French Army man an acoustic locator device on January 4, 1940.
The device was one of many experimental designs, built to pick up the sound of distant aircraft engines and give their distance and location. The introduction and adoption of radar technology rendered these devices obsolete very quickly.
The device was one of many experimental designs, built to pick up the sound of distant aircraft engines and give their distance and location. The introduction and adoption of radar technology rendered these devices obsolete very quickly.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Saturday, February 2, 2013
BB-56
USS Washington, a 35,000-ton North Carolina class battleship, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.
She commissioned in May 1941 and was in the Atlantic during "close to war" and wartime operations for more than a year. From April into July 1942 Washington worked with the British Home Fleet in the North Atlantic.
She was then overhauled and sent to the South Pacific, where, in September, she joined U.S. forces engaged in the Guadalcanal Campaign. On 14-15 November 1942, she was flagship of Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee in the last part of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. During that night action, her sixteen-inch guns fatally damaged the Japanese battleship Kirishima.
Washington worked in the South and Central Pacific into 1944. She took part in the invasions of the Gilbert Islands in November 1943 and the Marshalls early in the new year. On 1 February 1944, during the latter operation, she crushed her bow in a collision with the battleship USS Indiana (BB-58). Following repairs, Washington rejoined the fleet in time to participate in the Marianas invasion in June 1944, and in the resulting Battle of the Philippine Sea.
During the next year, Washington took part in operations to capture the Palaus, Leyte, Luzon, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, as well as supporting the fast carriers on their raids throughout the Western Pacific. She was undergoing overhaul during the last two months of the Pacific War and, in October 1945, steamed through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic. Her final active duty was to transport veteran servicemen home from Europe. USS Washington was placed out of commission in June 1947 and was in "mothballs" from then until May 1961, when she was sold for scrapping.
Info: Naval Historical Center
